With the widespread of Web Services (WS), more deployed services are being registered into a services registry, consequently giving rise to a series of problems. A conspicuous one...
We tackle the problem of defining a well-founded semantics (WFS) for Datalog rules with existentially quantified variables in their heads and negations in their bodies. In partic...
Abstract—We present the query-by-description (QBD) component of “Kandem,” a time-aware music retrieval system. The QBD system we describe learns a relation between descriptiv...
We consider the problem of multiple description (MD) coding for stationary sources with the squared error distortion measure. The MD rate region is derived for the stationary and ...
In professional environments which are characterized by a domain (Medicine, Law, etc.), information retrieval systems must be able to process precise queries, mostly because of the...